A few days after the Taliban arrested a remote district in northern Afghanistan, they issued their first orders in the form of a letter to the local priest.
“It is said that women cannot go to the market without male friends, and humans should not shave their beard,” said Seakullah, 25, a resident of Kalalafgan Regency.
The rebels also prohibited smoking, he added, and warned that anyone who violated the rules “would actually deal with”.
Taliban made great progress throughout the country when they took advantage of the final withdrawal of foreign forces – arrest the district, won the main border crossing, and circling the provincial capital.
In some areas they re-introduced the hard interpretation of Islamic rules that gave them fame until it was overthrown by the LED invasion u.S. Following the September 11 attacks.
Last month they took the Khan Bandar shirt, a North customs post that connected the country to Tajikistan on the bridge funded A.S. which stretches the Panj River.
“After Shir Khan Bandar fell, the Taliban ordered a woman not to get out of their home,” said Sajeda, who told AFP he worked in a local factory at the time.
“There are many young women and girls who do embroidery, sew, and make shoes … The Order of the Taliban now makes us afraid,” he told AFP by telephone.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 according to the Interpretation of the Qur’an a little changed in centuries.
Women were ordered to remain in the room except accompanied by male relatives, girls were banned from school, and those who were found guilty of crimes such as adultery stoned to death.
Men have relatively more freedom but ordered not to shave, will be beaten if they don’t attend prayers, and are told just wearing traditional clothes.
Afghanistan is very conservative and some country rustic bags comply with similar rules and even without Taliban supervision – but the rebels have tried to impose this decrat even in more modern centers.
‘Married your daughter to the Taliban’
A statement intended to come from the Taliban circulating on social media this week ordered the villagers to marry their daughters and widows for footprints.
“All priests and mullah in the arrest area must provide a Taliban with a list of girls above 15 and widows under 45 years to marry Taliban fighters,” said the letter, which was released in the name of the Taliban Culture Commission.
It brings back bitter memories of the decree issued by the service for the multiplication of virtues and prevention of representatives during the Taliban’s first task.
Want to project a softer image this time, they denied issuing such a statement and refused as propaganda.
“This is a baseless claim,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, a group spokesman. “They are rumors that spread using fabrication paper.”
“No one can leave home at night ‘
But people in the area recently taken by rebels insisted on truth for Buzz’s social media.
In the Yawan district on the Tajikistan border, the Taliban gathered residents in a local mosque after taking over.
“The commander they told us that no one was allowed to leave the house at night,” said Nazir Mohammad, 32, told AFP.
“And no one – especially the Taliban youth returned to the old way in the newly confiscated Afghan region can wear red and green clothes,” he said, referring to the color of the Afghan flag.
The order they did not stop there.
“Everyone must wear turban and no one can shave,” Mohammad said. “Girls who attend sixth grade are banned from class.”
The Taliban insisted they would protect human rights – especially for women – but only in accordance with “Islamic values”.
For the Sajeda on the Tajikistan border, only a few days from the Taliban rules are enough – and he fled south to Kunduz nearby city.
“We will never be able to work in areas under the Taliban,” he said, “so, we left”.
